The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-03
GEORGIA.

GEORGIA
Redden Smith is building forty-room
hotel at Townsville.
Spring chickens are now plentiful in the
Athens market at 15c.
The first brick church in Brunswick has
been built by colored people.
There are about twenty cases of measles
in and around Eudora, Jasper county
The Athens bar is a unit for Hon. Howell
Cobb for the Supreme Court Judgeship.
Joseph Gay, OF Alapaha, brought suit a
few days ago against Isaac Fem, for 81, DOC
damages for SANDER.
During the year ending Aug. 81 Athens
received rs, 647 bales of cotton, an increase
of 1854 over the preceding year.
Two negro boys fell asleep on the Augusta
and Knoxville railroad track, near Augusta
Thursday and were struck by train. One
may die.
Friedlander g. Anderson, of Brunswick,
have dissolved partnership. Mr.. Friedland-
er goes to San Francisco to live and Mr..
Anderson carries on the business.
John Mcmillan, aged 81, familiarly known
as Uncle johnny one of the old pioneers
of Berrien county, has been lying seriously
i'll for some time. He is slowly recovering
In case Hon. Samuel Lumpkin is elected to
the Supreme Court. Messrs. S. II. Hardeman
and H. A. McWhorter will be candidates
for the circuit Judgeship that he will va
cate.
Joe Wilson, of Villa Rica, sold the min
eral interest in his farm a few miles east of
town to company in Alabama last Mon
day for 81 800. There is said to be iron in
paying quantities on the place.
Col w. H. Morton, of Clarke county,
lost his gin house, machinery. engines and a
saw and grst mill by fire Tuesday night.
Heavy insurance rates forced him to carry
his own risk. He is preparing to rebuild.
Monday, while w. Sapp, in the employ
of the Gress Lumber Company, was olling
one of the machines at the planning mills,
and while not noticing, the saw caught his
left hand, and cut off the four fingers. The
hand had to be amputated
Mrs. j. r. Crane writes that correct ac-
count has not been given of what occurred
during her visit to Voolfolk The accused
murderer was very much pleased to see his
aunt, and his sister acted in an affection
ate manner toward him. He kissed them
and asked them to visit him again
Lucien Brasell, of Irwin county, was in
Abbeville last week. He has been afflicted
from infancy with paralysis, and has no use
of the left arm, leg and foot. He is in his
Tlob I1U Oil Ills way W G1dWklflS-
vile afoot, had walked thirty-seven miles,
and had twenty-five more. to walk on a
crutch.
The genuine fighting Confederate officers
are very scarce in Athens. They have all
died or moved off. There are plenty of
Colonies who came on the field after the
war, but the fighting ones have PLAYED out.
There are only two bona fide Colonels in the
city, and the other officers are equally as
scarce
Mitchell county reports that the cotton
crop never was before so nearly picked out
in August. The two warehouses at Camilla
have weighed 75S bales Taking In Pelham
Flint and Baconton, it is thought about
1000 bave been weighed. Possibly the mum.
Der willTeach 8 800 or 1900 in this month
which will be more than two-thirds of the
whole crop.
Last Saturday night gang of negroes
imagined that they could take Dawson. and
they set out with that idea, but were soon
taken "out of the cold" by policemen. They
commenced their programme by rocking
the houses of the citizens, and as late an
hour as II o'clock Saturday night they
rocked the houses all along the line from
thee depot to the business portion of the
town.
Judge Grice, of HawkinSviIle, has the
warehouse or cotton books kept by Chas-
tan & Dupree in Hawkinsville in the years
1867. They contain the original receipts
for cotton shipped by the firm to Savannah
and other ports via Darien, and also receipts
from farmers for cotton sold by Messrs
Chastian. & Dupree. The price paid was
generally 15c.-never less than 14c MOI
more than 16c.
A citizen of Brentwood owns very saga
cious dog If he drops a handkerchief. OF
other article of any kind, the dog will picl
it up and follow along with it. He will
also take a package from down town to The
gentleman's house. Perhaps the best trail
of this pup is that he keeps a strict watct
over his master, and if he takes a drink tn,
dog at once hurries home and communi
Gates the fact to the gentleman's WIFE
At Stone Mountain Wednesday night i
was rumored that mob OF negroes from
Atlanta and Decatur was coming to TAX,
the town by force and lynch one Of the citi
zens who has been taking prominent posi-
ton against them in their crimes and out
breaks. Guards were kept up until a lat.
hour, but fortunately they did not maxi
their appearance. The people of Ston
Mountain are not anxious for anything o
this kind to happen, but if mob comes i
will meet with cordial reception.
On the right of the public road leadiu,
from Bottsford through the Gooseberry dis
trict of Webster county, and about tire
miles from the first mentioned place, is al
old house, the former residence of Uncl
Allison Culpepper, a Primitive Baptis
preacher in his day. and who built this hous
somewhere in the thirties The house i
| now dilapidated, but as building it is o
interest, for it connects the Indian period O
this section with the present In the var,
is an immense tree, some three yards il
diameter Its age is from $50 to 200 years
In size it reaches the dimensions of some O
CALIFORNIA; big trees
Enoch King, a negro from Terrell county
| stepped into Joseph Ehrlich's shoe store a
Albany Wednesday and said: 'I'll give you
81, boss for pair of shoes that will fit m
feet" Mr. Ehrlich eyed the tall, heavily
built specimen and replied: "Well, sir,
have the very shoe for YOU Step this way
Going to the rear of his store Mr. Ehrlicl
| pulled out an extra wide shoe box, and rust
ling among its contents, brought to ligh
a No. IA, built on an extra wide last
| Enoch, who stood six feet and six inche,
high and was broad in proportion, took of
a shoe that had been made to order for hin
year ago, and squeezed one of his ponder
GUS pedal extremities into the No. a. II,
wrestled with it until it was on. and com
| planned that there was not room enough il
! it for his comfort, and sorrowfully sough
farther for the big object Of his intense de
| sire
N. L. Raglan, of Albany, had an expert
anca with "a hotca tra6pr "Wednesday ba